By Sadijah Wallace Special to the NNPA from Howard University News Service WASHINGTON – It was the find that Lonnie Bunch III and the new National...
(BBC) – South Africa has introduced new rules, requiring any child crossing its borders to be in possession of – or to have earlier submitted during a...
(Los Angeles Times) – Early one weekend morning, just after the nightclubs had closed, three young white men ambled into the harsh fluorescent light of...
MAPUTO, Mozambique (AP) — Mozambique’s president is hosting his South African counterpart on a state visit. President , on Wednesday welcomed South African President Jacob Zuma...
LYNSEY CHUTEL, Associated Press PRETORIA, South Africa (AP) — A South African judge on Tuesday extended the bail of retired doubles tennis champion Bob Hewitt, who...
(BBC) – South Africa’s high court has temporarily prevented the deportation of more than 300 undocumented migrants. Rights activists have criticised the arrests of more than...
Christopher Torchia, ASSOCIATED PRESS JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South Africa’s main opposition group on Sunday chose its first black leader at a party congress, seeking to...
(BBC) – The wave of xenophobic attacks seems to have died down for now but the issue of immigration remains controversial. South Africans have turned out...
CHRISTOPHER TORCHIA, Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Only a few kilometers (miles) separate Alexandra, a gritty Johannesburg township where South Africans attacked immigrants last week, from...
(BBC) – South African soldiers and police have conducted a series of raids in an effort to curb attacks on foreign nationals and the looting of...
CHRISTOPHER TORCHIA, Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Worried about their safety, hundreds of African immigrants headed out of South Africa in buses on Monday following deadly...
(BBC) – Foreign-owned shops in South Africa have been attacked and looted in east Johannesburg, the latest in a series of xenophobic attacks. A standoff is...
LYNSEY CHUTEL, Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — President Jacob Zuma on Thursday urged South Africans to stop attacking immigrants from Africa and South Asia, but hundreds...
LYNSEY CHUTEL, Associated Press PRETORIA, South Africa (AP) — On his first state visit to South Africa since 1994, Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe on Wednesday pleaded...
CHRISTOPHER TORCHIA, Associated Press CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — It began with a container of excrement. On March 9, a South African student protester tossed...
CHICAGO (AP) — Oprah Winfrey will auction off paintings, furniture, designer clothing and other items from her Chicago residence next month. Leslie Hindman Auctioneers said...
LYNSEY CHUTEL, Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — The “Memoirs of a Porcupine,” the “Confessions of the Lioness” and the lessons from the Sahara desert are just...
Douglas Birch and R. Jeffrey Smith, Center for Public Integrity via THE WASHINGTON POST PELINDABA, South Africa (The Washington Post)—Enough nuclear explosive to fuel half...
by LYNSEY CHUTEL, Associated Press A South African man who was reunited with his kidnapped daughter after 17 years said on Tuesday that he would...
(Daily Mail) – The robbery of a South African news team has sent shock waves through the country after the brazen muggers were filmed on the...
LYNSEY CHUTEL, Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — The African Union chairwoman is “safe and sound,” the organization said on Thursday, after leaked intelligence documents revealed a...
(Reuters) – South Africa’s government has built close to 4 million houses for low-income families since the end of apartheid in 1994. Lizzie Mboweni is...
LYNSEY CHUTEL, Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — The South African government Friday granted parole to Eugene de Kock, the head of an apartheid state covert unit...
Johannesburg (All Africa) — Sixty-eight people have been arrested in Soweto this week for looting and violence, Gauteng’s police commissioner said on Thursday. “Police have...
LYNSEY CHUTEL, Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South Africans are celebrating news that 76 percent of high school students have passed final exams, an announcement televised...
